Stock-watering device.



No. 675,692. Patented June 4, I901.

v N. WEHR.

STOCK WATEBING DEVICE.

(Application filed Feb. 13, 1901.)

(No Model.)

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ivrrrn STATES PATENT OFFICE.

NICKOLAUS WEHR, OF PORTSMOUTH, IOWA.

STOCK-WATERING DEVIOE.

SPEGIFIOATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 675,692, dated June 4,190] Application filed February 13, 1901. Serial No. 47,172. (No model.)

the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form apart of this specification.

This invention relates to a stock-watering device.

The aim of my invention is to provide a stock-waterer so arranged thatthe water will be prevented from freezing in cold weather, and,further,presenting the advantage in that small openings are left exposed throughwhich the animals may get at the water, as will be described more fullyhereinafter.

In the accompanying drawingsI have shown in Figure 1 a top view of astock-watering device embodying myinvention. Fig. 2 shows a centralsectional view thereof with aportion removed.

My invention embodies, essentially, a reservoir 24, into which isdirected a supplypipe 5,which may communicate with a pump,

waterworks system, or with any other watersupply. This reservoir at asuitable point is provided with a lid-closed opening, the lid in thedrawings being marked 20 and being secured to the top of the reservoirby means Extending from this reservoir 24, which is filled from anydesired source from time to time, is an auxiliary reservoir 'orwater-tank 13; This water-tank is placed at a suitable distance belowthe reservoir 24:,

40 so that the water may gravitate from the reservoir to the tank 13.This tank comprises a top having openings and the ends 28 and 29 and thebottom 14:. This tank is in pipe connection with the reservoir 24; bymeans of the pipe 15, and I make this pipe connection in a special way,as it is found that the tank or reservoir may settle so as to strain theconnecting-pipe 15. In order to make the proper connection, I make anopening in the bottom of the reservoir as well as the tank of a sizelarger than pipe 15, which connects these two receptacles. Then I drivea plurality of wedge-shaped stakes around the pipe 15, so that anabsolute water-tight connection is insured between the pipe and thereceptacles bottoms. To furtherinsure a Water-tight connection, tar orwaX or any other material may be used as a covering for these stakes.Now should the tank 13 or reservoir 2r settle and strain the pipe 15 itwill simply be necessary for the operator to drive the wedges a littletighter into their seating, when a water-tight connection will again beassured.

The tank 13, as has been stated, is a suitable distance below thereservoir, as shown in Fig. 2. In order to control the water-supply inthe tank 13, I provide an ordinary floatvalve 19, to which is secured alever 18, having a stem 16, upon which stem is heldafloat 30, whichfloat is adjustably held upon the stem 16 by means of the nutsA and B.This float forms no part of myinvention, and any ordinary float-valvemay be used. This float is so arranged that the water-level within thetank is at an angle, as is shown in the drawings. In order toproperlysupport this tank at an angle, the tank is supported upon theblock 36. It will be noticed that the tank is below the earth-line w :0,and I prefer to fill this in closure within the ground, comprising thebottom 30 and the walls 32, B, G, D, and A. The wall 32 is a stub-walland ofiers a support to the runway K, which is preferably made ofsuitable boards, which lead to the tank opening. The walls A, B, C, andD project above the surface of the ground. This runway is closed bymeans of the walls 26, 27, and the wall 12, extending upward from thetank 13. To prevent animals stepping through the openings g, Iprovideagrate c below, as is shown in the drawings. At these openings g,which are on a level with the ground, the smaller animals, such as hogs,water.

The opening within the reservoir 24 is a suitable distance above theground, as is shown in Fig. 2, where an opening 7has been out into thewall A, so that the cattle can readily get at the drink opening withinthe reservoir 21. From this it will be noticed that I provide areservoir from which the cattle may drink aboveground, a tank below thesurface of the ground, and a wall or in closure which completelysurrounds these two water-receptacles. The walls surrounding thesereceptacles serve two purposes. In the first place they prevent theanimals from walking over the water-receptacles, and in the second placethey form a holder for a suitable packing, with which the entireinclosure is filled in winter. On farms and stock-ranches, where thesetanks are mostly used, manure forms the best packing, as the sameprevents the water from freezing within the receptacles. In winter theopening 20 is preferably closed every night and opened only during thetime when the animals are drinking. The openings g are normally open, asit is found that the ice very seldom freezes to such a thickness that itcannot be readily broken by the animals.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by United States Letters Patent, is-

In a stock-watering device of the character described, an inclosureextending below the surface of the earth, of a reservoir within saidinclosure, said reservoir being above the surface of the earth, a tankbelow the earths surface providedwith a suitable opening, a pipeextending from said reservoir into said tank, a float-operated valve atthe pipe end within said tank, a grate below said opening within saidtank, and an inclosed runway leading to the said grated opening withinsaid tank, as and for the purpose set forth.

Signed in the presence of two witnesses.

I NICKOLAUS WEHR.

WVituesses: GEORGE W. SUEs, R. J. DAVENPORT.

